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Watch: Insider's Business Briefing - 14th October
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11/10/2024
Simon and Remy discuss a major investment into renewable energy, the future of Knowsley and look ahead to Insider's annual Dealmakers Awards Dinner.
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We visit Knowsley, a look ahead at dealmakers and investment in renewable
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energy. That's what's coming up in today's Daily Business Briefing.
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Hi, I'm Simon Keegan. I'm Remy Greasley. So Remy, is there any stories that have
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jumped out at you today from the Insider website? Yeah, so one that I like to
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particularly keep an eye on is sort of renewable energy stories we have going
00:30
on. One out of the North East today was from Sia Wind. They're building
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sort of quite a big factory to create what are called wind monopiles. What's a
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monopile? So if you imagine a wind turbine, it's the thing that goes
00:46
underneath, I guess, to keep it upright and also keep it operational. So they've
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now made an additional 225 million pound investment into a new factory that
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they're currently constructing at the Teesside Freeport. And that will bring
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the sort of overall investment in that factory to 900 million. And then the sort
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of idea from that is to then start exporting these wind monopiles to sort
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of support, I guess, the global push for renewable energy. There's plenty of wind
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up there anyway. How about yourself, Simon? Well, as you know, we've just got the
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November issue of the magazine off to the printers. Now one of the things that
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we've got featured in there is the International Trade Awards shortlist.
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Now I went to visit one of the companies that's in the shortlist. Now regular
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viewers will know I have a bit of a penchant for whiskey and gin. And so I
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went up to the Forest Distillery. Really, really interesting place. That's, if
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you know the old Cat and Fiddle pub, it's on the road between Macclesfield and
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Buxton. So they've transformed the pub into a distillery. So they've been
02:03
doing gin there for a while, but now they've started whiskey. Obviously that's
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going to be in the barrel for a little bit longer. So I'll be looking forward to
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trying that when it's ready. When it's ready, yeah. If you're
02:16
listening, Carl, me and Remy are happy to try that for you. Other things we've got
02:20
in the issue, we've got the SME 300. So you can find out the most successful
02:26
companies in that small and medium-sized range. We've also got coverage of the
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42 Under 42 event. It was great that wasn't it? Yeah, very nice. First time there
02:37
myself, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah, and our first time at the AO Arena for it as
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well. So you can read all about that. Also in that issue, you've been working
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on a feature on Knowsley, haven't you, for our regional section. So you got out
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there in the patch, didn't you? Spoke to some people? Yeah, Knowsley's somewhere
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quite close to home for me, being someone living in Liverpool. But I don't
02:59
want to give too much away now, because obviously you'll have to read it in the
03:03
magazine. But I spoke to some of the, I think, the biggest stakeholders in the
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region, in both public and private sector. And one in particular was Mike Harden,
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who's the outgoing CEO of Knowsley Council. And I had a really nice sit down
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with him, talking a bit on, you know, reflecting on the legacy he's leaving. He
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came in 10 years ago, when the council, the sort of area, was under some quite
03:28
hard times. And he's managed to turn it around. And really the sort of idea I got
03:33
from most of my interviews was this idea of sort of a rebirth. The
03:39
foundations have been fixed. Now it's time to see where Knowsley can go.
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It's a lot of industry there, a lot of strong manufacturers particularly, isn't it?
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I think it's definitely somewhere that people maybe sleep on. Yeah, yeah, but
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definitely a really important part of the Liverpool City region as well.
03:57
Well, something else that we've got coming up. This week actually is one of
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our biggest events of the year. It's kind of an event season really, isn't it?
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We've got everything happening. We've just recently had the Liverpool Property
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Awards. We recently had 42 under 42. This week we've got Dealmakers, Xert, big one.
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Yeah, so that's going to be in Manchester Central, as ever. So that will be
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Thursday night, so Friday morning. Look out for some video coverage of that
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event. Or even better, if you're going, we'll see you there.
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Remy, that's all we've got time for. Thanks Simon. Thank you.
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